Heroku: Up and Running

By Neil Middletonand Richard SchneemanRead Online
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Build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud with Heroku, one of the first PaaS platforms to offer sophisticated hosting and development services. With this book, you’ll learn how to use Heroku’s Cedar runtime stack, a polyglot platform with native support for several languages and frameworks, including Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, and more.

Learn about how the Heroku platform works and read about day-to-day best practices for hosting your applications on the platform. You’ll learn everything from basic concepts to advanced topics such as Buildpacks so you can start running in the cloud right away.